Dell Technologies Inc. is revving up its computer-aided engineering and design offerings to help customers tackle modeling- and simulation-intensive computing workloads.

Today’s offerings include new and updated Validated Designs for Manufacturing that have already been put to use by the Formula One racing team McLaren Racing Ltd., as well as more accelerator options for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and a new Dell EMC PowerSwitch.

The Validated Designs are intended to work with Siemens AG’s Simcenter Star CCM+ computational fluid dynamics simulation software. Announced at the Supercomputing 2021 event, the designs enable high-performance computer-aided engineering and design on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, with PowerSwitch and Nvidia Corp.’s InfiniBand networking, at any location.

David Nguyen, senior director of product planning and management for Dell’s ISG Core Compute Group, revealed in a blog post that the McClaren F1 racing team is already using the system design to power aerodynamic simulations on 3D digital twins of its race cars.

“These complex studies are conducted via the latest high-performance computing infrastructure at McLaren’s U.K. headquarters,” he said. “If green-lighted, a component will be prototyped at a reduced scale and tested in a wind tunnel. To make crucial decisions about the races and the cars, data is also accessed in near-real time by McLaren engineers both with a trackside modular data center at the edge, and at Mission Control.”

The new validated designs and server systems are designed to democratize HPC for computer-aided design, Nguyen said. The systems boast engineering validation, sizing and benchmark results that make them easy to install, configure and manage at any location, with services and support readily available.

The validated designs include new PowerEdge accelerator options such as the AMD Instinct Mi-210, available starting next quarter, and Nvidia A16 Tensor Core and Nvidia A2 GPUs, available now.

“Each car transmits key telemetry data in real time, and our trackside IT infrastructure from Dell Technologies relays it to our headquarters engineers, who use our HPC and advanced simulations to find ways to boost performance even more,” said McClaren Principal Digital Architect Edward Green.

Another key component of McClaren’s system is the latest Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5448F-ON. Available later this quarter, the S5448F-ON is a “top-of-rack” switch that’s said to enable a significant boost in throughput between linked servers and storage platforms. The switch boasts higher density with 100-gigabit to 400-gigabit Ethernet speeds and also comes with integrated SmartFabric services to simplify complex network designs and Dell EMC CloudIQ monitoring software.

The new Validated Designs for HPC Digital Manufacturing are available now.

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